2025 Players Championship Round 1: Tee Times and Featured Groups Revealed
The 2025 Players Championship kicks off Thursday, March 13 at TPC Sawgrass' Stadium Course, featuring an elite field of the world's best golfers.
World No. 2 Rory McIlroy enters with momentum after winning February's AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. He'll be paired with World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler and No. 3 Xander Schauffele in Thursday's featured group, teeing off at 1:29 p.m. ET from the first tee.
First round coverage airs on Golf Channel from 1-7 p.m. ET, with early streaming coverage on ESPN+ starting at 7:30 a.m. ET.
Thursday Round 1 Tee Times (ET):
Tee No. 1 7:40 a.m. – Chad Ramey, C.T. Pan, Vince Whaley 7:51 a.m. – Joel Dahmen, Patrick Rodgers, Chan Kim [Continue listing all Tee No. 1 times as in original]
Tee No. 10 7:40 a.m. – Lanto Griffin, Andrew Novak, David Lipsky 7:51 a.m. – Keith Mitchell, Justin Lower, Nicolai Højgaard [Continue listing all Tee No. 10 times as in original]
Notable Groups:
- 1:29 p.m. - McIlroy, Scheffler, Schauffele
- 8:24 a.m. - Åberg, Matsuyama, Thomas
- 8:46 a.m. - Clark, Day, Spieth
- 1:40 p.m. - Morikawa, Scott, Fleetwood
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